Omaha daily bee., 1887-04-21
"A BOND SEVERED,
Burial OF the Only Surviving Cbild Of
VIM. Won Humboldt.

lCOpwight 1887 by James Gordon Bcnnett.l
BERLIN, April 20.-[New York Herald
Cable-Specal to the BEE. The burial
this afternoon of Gabriel Won BueOw, erD-
frau auf Tegel, the last surviving child of
William Won Humboldt, cuts one of the last
bonds between the two famuos brothers and
new Germany. Yesterday the body law in
state In the house of Kron Prienzen. All
social Berlin sent wreaths and crosses of.
magnificent flowers. The emperor sent as a
representative Marshall Count PerpOncher.
The empress was represented by Countess
PerpOncher. Prince Alexander, of Prussia,
came personally. Other princes sent ladies
and gentlemen in waiting. The Domkirche
choir boys chanted "Christ My Lite' before
the body was taken from the room to the
hearse, which carried it to TOget, to which
1t was escorted by one Of the emperOrs
state carriages to-day. The long pro-
cession of relatives and friends
went with the corpse from Aldsyte
Schoss Tege, where both Alexander
and William loved to live, to the pine-skirted
grave beside the two famous brothers under
the Humboldt monument. The country peo-
pie crowded around the iron railing which
enclosed the monument. An, old family
servant guarding the open grave shook
hands with Rit Meister Buelow, when the
son and heir, as chief mourner, took the
place at the head of the grave. A dirge,
which seemed echoed back by the swaying
pine tops, announced the lowering of the
body to Its place beside the long dead father.
Then there was a short prayer, after which
the relatives advanced, with palm leave
flowers in hand, to throw each three hand
fuls of earth upon the coffin. Several great
grandchildren added their little handfuls to
the earth-covering Of the body of their eighty
fve-year-Old grandmother. Among the flow
ers which covered the coffin enclosure were
wreaths from the emperor, empress and
many high officials OF the court.
INTERESTING RECoLLECTIoNs.
The deceased to the last clearly remem-
bered great mass of interesting details re-
garding the pathological researches of her
father, William, the travels and adventures
OF her uncle Alexander, and also concerning
her own life, when as wife of the ambassador
to England, representative of Russia at the
Frankfurt diet in 1S4l she met all the leading
men of her time. Although living much in
retirement of late, she several times formed
the center of most brilliant circle of not
ables. She attended q dedication of the
statues of William and Alexander before the
university of Berlin, when the kaizer and
crown prince We'd with each other in show
ing respect 10 ner.
WILL BRING A MEMORIAL.
DR.. Shueskenberg, an American pastor at
Berlin, will soon take to A merica an inter
esting memorial of the Humboldt's-
writing table given by William upon which
Alexander wrote Cosmos" 1t Is pre-
served precisely as left with the remnants
of the last candle used by Alexander before
death.
Gladstone Values American Support.
LONDON, April 20-Gladstone writes 81
attach very high value and Importance to the
manifestations now ncsssant of American
as well as colonial sympathy with the Irish
people in the crisis created by the causeless,
insulting, insidious bill at present before
parliament. Apart from particular and more
or less formal acknowledgements, am no,
OF the opinion that II will be proper or ex
pedient for me to take 1t upon myself to ad-
dress any genera. communication to Amertca
on this subject, which, however, | noticed
and may again notice in parliament. Still
am very anxious that the people of this coun
try should have the means of understanding
how much beyond the range of any sectona
impulses and how truly national the move
ment in the United States has become, anl
IN this view l would recommend that an en-
deavor be made to present some estimate o.
the aggregate number OF persons by whicl
the recent meetings In America were at
tended; likewise especially, an estimate o
the number of governors, mayors, senators
representatives, clergymen and other officia
or highly responsible persons by whom such
meetings were countenanced or supported.